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Do we like Katie Taylor?

Our score: 8 out of 10. A decent, consistent record and one stand for women, with no harmful words found, though little is on file about her views on wider issues.

Katie Taylor grew up in Bray, County Wicklow, in a family she says was not expected to amount to much. She started boxing when girls were barred from Irish amateur competition, so she was breaking down doors before she ever won a belt.

The peak came at London 2012, when she took Olympic lightweight gold. Rio 2016 ended in heartbreak, then she turned pro and won world titles at lightweight and super-lightweight. She finished 26 wins and one loss.

Her bouts with Amanda Serrano were messy: the second was clouded by a split decision that had fans arguing. Taylor has responded to the "dirty fighter" talk in interviews, but this is a sporting dispute, not a character stain, and there's nothing else of substance in the record I found.

On the harm check, nothing nasty turned up from her. When Billy Joe Saunders said women were not there to be punched, she answered calmly that she felt sorry for his wife and daughter if that was his only view of women. I found no statement of hers on trans athletes or Imane Khelif, so that part is a gap, not a pass or fail on those topics.

Her Christian faith is front and centre. She has said “God chose our family and did something with us”. Faith alone is never a mark against anyone here, and nothing in what I read links it to hostility toward anyone.

Her farewell was a class act. At Croke Park she told fans “You were with me in 2012”, and she stopped to accept thanks from the stadium's staff. I found no big charity record, so the good stuff here is mostly the example she set and the path she opened for women in the ring.